Dan Waugh

Take the Adventure, heed the call, now ere the irrevocable moment passes!

-Kenneth Grahame, The Wind in the Willows

Dan Waugh has climbed in the Caucasus and Central Asia, as well as closer to home in
the Cascades. In 1991, he was on a Mountaineers/Soviet
Alpine Federation exchange climb on Peak Lenin (7134m.) in the Pamirs. In 1993, he led REI Adventures clients to the
summit of Mt. Elbrus in the Caucasus and in 1994 was a member of Tom Hargis's successful
expedition to Gasherbrum II (8034m.) in the Karakoram. He has led treks in the
Pamir-Alai Range of Kyrgyzstan ( most recently, for Mountain Travel/Sobek) and a mountain bike adventure through the
mountains of Kyrgyzstan, across the Torugart Pass to Kashgar, and then down the Karakoram
Highway to Gilgit in Pakistan. In 1996, at age 54, he solo trekked in the mountains east
of Kongur (7719m.) in Xinjiang, explored the unknown southeast side of Mustagh Ata
(7546m.), and summited on Mustagh Ata as a member of a group led by Andrei Ershov of St.
Petersburg, Russia. The trek around Kongur was written up in The Himalayan Journal,
Vol. 54 (1998), and further details were published in the November 1999 issue of The
Geographical Journal. In the summer of 1999, he attempted 7000 m. Khan Tengri
in the Tien Shan range of Kyrgyzstan. Dan's other outdoor activities include orienteering.